A haul of priceless fabricsincluding brocades rewoven from eighteenth-century patterns and extraordinary antique lace found in Venice and Florencewas cut and spliced and molded to fit the world’s most beautiful bodies to perfection. The Prince influence was in the wide-lapelled coats: nipped at the waist, gorgeously patchworked or embroidered with jet leopard-spot beading and with rich linings of silk and lace cuffs trailing from the sleeve. As for Madame de Pompadour, she was down to her skimpies in a second, frolicking in flirtatious thigh-high corset dresses smothered in silver antique lace.

Evening gowns had all the traditional Versace hallmarkslong, plunging and clinging to every curve for dear life. Heralding a comeback for the all-woman hourglass silhouette, this was a collection full of killer style for all those deluxe dates in the lives of twenty-first-century rock royalty.